Imagine Writing A Complete Book In Wax.

[So reviewing this post of my favorite posts of friends and others from the second half of January, that sentence struck me as I was scrolling through. And as I saved it, I was thinking of a Japanese emperor who wrote an entire book in his own blood (an Emperor Sutoku in the twelfth century, and you thought such things belonged in fiction!), not that I'm planning to do that!

Just not blue-blooded enough ... David] 

 

1. Dear neighbors:
Please make your spawn stop screaming at my door. Where are you, even, that you can't hear this? And the pounding on the wall? It would be nice if that stopped, too.
Sincerely,
Childless and impatient of loud offspring
(Maybe I'll understand once I have my own, but I just don't get why it's acceptable to scream every. single. word. of. every. sentence.)

*Note to self... blast "Turn Down for What?!"... Like now.

2. Okay, that's it. Bigot overload.

Yes, I'm a poor hillbilly. I don't have a job. My last home (not this one) had wheels. I keep dogs. I know how to saddle a horse. I'm a tomboy, too, able to hunt and process my own kill all the way to the table. I grow a garden, the best way I know how. I spend time preserving that food. My medicine often comes from places other than a pharmacy, and my current home is efficient, if not conventional. Until something beyond our ability to control happened, we paid our bills early or on time, and we'd still love to do so. Our credit was, despite low cash flow from a below-living wage income, near perfect.

What one can't change isn't worth the fetid breath of the know-it-all population of this world. Yes, damnit! I _will_ help the next person, within my means and ability as well as their means and ability. What I will _not_ do is accept the crud dished out by mouthy fools.

Thank you. That is all. Please carry on.

 

3. Loyalty is only as strong as the love we have for those in our lives.

 

4. Today is a new day, live it to its fullest be that working, oving sharing or all the above, tomorrow is the future, plan for it but do not live in it as it is not promised to us. Yesterday is the past, it is no longer and can not be changed yet it can be learned from,remembered and hopefully never repeated. Take each day as it is given and make each today a yesterday worth remembering..... Dee.

 

5. My mom said "Your million dollar idea is inside u. It is u! Write it!"

 

6. I think I think too much. On second thought, perhaps this requires more contemplation.

 

7. "How would you touch her heart if you were holding it in your hands? Next time you make love, touch her face that way."

"Sex getting boring? Wrestle him as foreplay. Let him feel your power. Then decide whether or not to let him win "

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[I think I can tell you wrote this as Dr. Brandon is a public figure. -- David]
 

8. I've watched jets chase 'space ships' and met people who claim to be aliens more than forty years ago. None of it seemed to really impact me personally. They seemed to be searching as I was in my youth. Since they had no answers; I had no time for them.

 

9. Who here believes we're seeing alien life NOW?

(This isn't meant to insult anybody, but ... if our definition of "alien" as broader than "extraterrestrial", you could make a cogent argument that there's life on our planet, discovered and undiscovered alike, that qualifies as "alien" in the sense of "foreign to our perception and/or experience". Life in deepest trenches or highest heights or darkest caves ... assuming we're not limiting ourselves to human or humanoid parameters, aliens are all around us.)

[This was MY response to a post asking do I believe we'll see alien life in our lifetimes.]
 

10. I had to check books for mold at the library i was interning at. it killed me every time I found an infected book. There was about 1000 we had to throw away. It was so heart breaking.

 

11. You will now all cease to exist while I transcendentally travel to this, my Fortress of Purpletude.

 

12. the laws of logic are contingent on God. They are a reflection of the way God thinks. Thus, they cannot exist without Him any more than your reflection in a mirror can exist without you. Since God is a thinking being and since He has always existed, laws of logic have always reflected His thinking.

 

13. Today's favorite word: douchepickle
Brought to you by author V.L. Locey
We will now return to your regularly scheduled programming.

 

14. I just found out that my ex he has a new girlfriend and I honestly wish him the best, because I care about him, I know that if it's meant to be for me, one day God will send me the perfect person to be in my life . lf not that's okay, I'm okay with being by myself.

 

15. The [Flying Spaghetti Monster] & Pastafarianism started as a critique over religion in schools. It became a funny symbol of Atheism/Agnosticism much like the Darwin Fish. Does it seem to anyone else that some people are starting to act like it is an "actual" (for lack of better term) deity and religion?

 

16. I was thinking this morning about the ongoing efforts by atheists to discredit Theism, and in particular Christianity. It seems to me that this has been going on, quite unsuccessfully, for thousands of years and the latest attempts are nothing new.

As I pondered it, I came up with several examples of this (many more can certainly be added, but this is just a sampling off the top of my head):

- In ancient times, the Jews tried to discredit Jesus by killing him and then had to contend with a vanishing body and the explosion of a new faith that claimed Jesus was alive again from the dead

- In the 1st century, Thallus (in the mid-50s) wrote about the darkness during the crucifixion and tried to explain it away as a solar eclipse. Julius Africanus responded convincingly to that some time later when he explained that solar eclipses are impossible during a full moon (and the passover always occurs during a full moon)

- In more recent times, people tried to claim that the Bible MUST have been completely corrupted since the earliest source documents we had were roughly 900 years after the originals were written. Then, of course, we found the Dead Sea Scrolls that were written approximately 1000 years earlier and we found them virtually identical to what we already had (so no real changes had occurred in 1000 years!)

- People tried to discredit the Bible by claiming that Pilate never was governor of Judea during Jesus' life. Then the Pilate Stone was found [I remember the news about this one -- late 90s, I believe.]

- Similarly, people questioned the existence of the Hittites (until the Hittites were discovered) and many other historical facts. Everything that's been found has refuted their criticism.

- People claimed that the gospels COULDN'T have been written as early as originally claimed. John MUST have been written late in the 2nd century. Until the Ryland Papyrus was found and we realized John was written much earlier as Christians had claimed

- Then there were the proponents of evolution who claimed to have a theory that would render God unnecessary. We see microevolution at work and surely the principles in microevolution could also account for all diversity, right? Until we failed to come up with the fossil evidence to support that claim...until findings like the Cambrian Explosion showed that life appeared on the scene almost immediately and in final form without all of the gradual "intermediate forms" that had been predicted. We also see now that studies of homology seriously erode the claims of macroevolution, and further have evidence that there appears to be a limit to how much change can occur...within a species, yet. But beyond that, apparently not

- Evolutionists took the next step and made claims that life must have originated spontaneously in a "warm pond". But that's been overturned both by the finding of how complex the single cell is and other issues (like the problem of oxygen/radiation and formation of amino acids).

- Atheists also said that our claim the universe had a beginning was silly...until Hubble and Einstein (and later Penzias and Wilson) proved the universe did have a beginning after all

- Atheists complained about the absence of evidence for God in the universe...until cosmologists began to uncover strong evidence of near-infinite fine tuning that they could not explain by chance or necessity alone

There are other examples to be certain, but every time the atheists raise an objection it's been answered convincingly and the Christian worldview has proven true every single time. What do the atheists do? Do they become believers?

No, they fall back and start trying to explain away what's been found...maybe the Big Bang DIDN'T happen after all...maybe there's REALLY a Multiverse out there...maybe consciousness is an epiphenomenon of the brain.

What we have with the atheists is summed up best by a quick analogy:

Imagine that someone decides to investigate the source of rain, but they decide in advance that it can't come from clouds. They spend years developing the most elaborate theories, only to have them fail over and over again. When someone says "um...really, rain comes from clouds", do they accept this? No, they take another try to disprove this obvious fact.

In short, they are less interested in what's true and more interested in trying to FINALLY prove the worldview they desperately cling to is true. But it's not. Just like rain really does come from clouds, God exists. And try as they might, they will never defeat the Christian worldview.

They'll keep trying, that much is certain. But as they've been doing for thousands of years, they will fail. And they will resort to disinformation and mocking to try and regain some of the ground they've lost. It's inevitable for anyone who is desperate to cling to their worldview in spite of the evidence. Others who genuinely do seek the truth will realize the futility of their quest and will follow the evidence, which will lead them to God. Many academics have had the courage to do this. CS Lewish, Alister McGrath, Frank Tipler, Francis Collins and others.

God exists. The Christian worldview is true. But this won't stop the militant atheists from doing their best. Still, Christ has built His Kingdom and the gates of hell will not prevail. Much less any group of people who want to convince us that their failed worldview is true.

 

17. My faith is real!!! Praise His Noodly Appendage! The seriousness of another person's faith and his/her claims and sincerity cannot be questioned. So, I believe in FSM. R'Amen!

 

18. Everyone is commenting on leopards & cheetahs & incarnations of other kitty-cats,but I post was really on me planning to buy this cute pair of stilettos today. As I only had an hour for lunch break,I didn't get the shoes~~ because anyone that knows anything,knows a woman just can not buy shoes under three hours~~it's just not done xox

 

19. It is my main job Arn,but once a year I do let some of the other office staff have a day~~also keeps the revolutionaries quiet lol

 

20. If anything happens, I just want you all to know that I love you, and I will see you in Glory with our Lord Jesus.

Luke 21:27-28

"And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh."

 

21. FEAR is like fame we all have at least 15min of it!

 

22. for me its doesnt matter what and hows ur looks as long as ur true and real person! and not disguising and pretending to be and dnt rob the face of other am and ur welcome as my friends....

 

23. Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even generals.

 

24. Today is my sisters birthday & when I called her this morning to wish her best wishes, I also reminded her that Big Sister Rule #1 still applied: Which is one of any presents little sister gets on her birthday must go to big sister~~big sister gets to pick out which one.
This is something I came up with when she was 4 years old & it only worked once, till Mom found out
Hey, it wasn't that I was a bad child ,just an evil sister lol

 

25. Hey, I got a great idea, stop redoing all the old movies, and make new movies.

 

26. Should probably not read stories by Bradbury before going to bed.. [depends on the story, in my opinion -- David] The dream I had last night was novel. Imagine writing a complete book in wax.

 

27. No a new book. Something to do to fill my days. I need to be more structured as to not slip back into the world of dying and worry. If my brain is busy, I'll be less able to ruminate about my health.

 

28. Dear Thursday, I KNOW you are not Friday. I understand that you are part of the work week and there are still tasks to be done, but do you have to be SO busy and STRESSFUL!
Sincerely,
Worn out me

 

29. Born on this day, Fred Korematsu (January 30, 1919 – March 30, 2005) was a Japanese American who resisted World War II incarceration deemed by FDR's Executive Order 9066. While the Supreme Court claimed this incarceration was out of military necessity in 1944, Prof. Peter Irons and researcher Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, discovered key documents that government intelligence agencies had hidden from the Supreme Court in 1944, which proved that Japanese Americans had committed no acts of treason to justify mass incarceration. A legal team then reopened Korematsu's case and on November 10, 1983, Korematsu’s conviction was overturned in a federal court in San Francisco. In 2010, January 30 was declared Fred Korematsu day, the first day named after an Asian American

 

30. Reasons why Deadpool sucks!:

He's not funny.
He's not interesting.
He's not dignified in any way.
He's a pervert.
He's obsessed with chimichangas.
He's not subtle.
He doesn't take anything seriously.
He's a stupid comedic rip-off of Deathstroke.

Reasons why Deathstroke is better than Deadpool:

He's a dignified and interesting character.
He has morals and a code of honor.
He's basically a mercenary version of
Captain America.
He can use almost all of his brain capacity and has an intellect on par with Batman.
He's a master strategist and knows exactly what he needs to do in any situation.
He actually has a story to tell.
Everything he does, he does for the sake of taking care of and protecting his family.

In conclusion, I HATE DEADPOOL!!!!!!!!!! and if anyone should have a movie coming out next February, it should be Deathstroke! A Deathstroke movie would actually have a story. The Deadpool movie no doubt is gonna be nothing but dumb jokes and fourth wall breaks. No story or good character development whatsoever.

 

31. When my eex-husband and I divorced, our son was about 6 yo. We agreed that neither one of us would ever talk bad about the other in front of our son. Well, I held up end of the bargain, he did not (long story - he totally fell apart) . Now that our son is 23, he has more respect for me bc I never bad mouthed his father. I always said to any one, that was he was a good father, we just couldn't make it work. Remember, when u bad mouth ur ex, what does that say about ur choices u've made to choose that person in the first place? ? Take the emotion out of it & remember ur child always comes first. And believe me, it's very hard.